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SustainabilitySustainable land management (SLM) practices are important for tackling agricultural land degradation. This study investigates the association between farmers’ time preferences and their adoption of SLM practices (agroforestry, terracing, and land fallow ...
C. N. Olumba, Guy Garrod, F. Areal
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Preference reversals: Time and again [PDF]
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016 This paper sheds new light on the preference reversal phenomenon by analyzing decision times in the choice task. In a first experiment, we replicated the standard reversal pattern and found that choices associated with reversals take significantly longer than non-reversals, and non-reversal choices take longer whenever long-shot lotteries are selected.
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos +3 more
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Chronotype, Risk and Time Preferences, and Financial Behaviour
Algorithms, 2018 This paper examines the effect of chronotype on the delinquent credit card payments and stock market participation through preference channels. Using an online survey of 455 individuals who have been working for 3 to 8 years in companies in mainland ...
Di Wang, Frank McGroarty, Eng-Tuck Cheah
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Different domains – Different time preferences? [PDF]
Social Science & Medicine, 2018 The vast majority of studies examining the relation between time preferences and health behavior have applied a measure of preferences in the financial rather than in the health domain. Most studies find a small but significant correlation. If time preferences for health and money are not the same, this can have substantial consequences for the ...
Eskild Klausen Fredslund +2 more
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Time preference, time discounting, and smoking decisions [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2007 This study examines the relationship between time discounting, other sources of time preference, and choices about smoking. Using a survey fielded for our analysis, we elicit rates of time discount from choices in financial and health domains. We also examine the relationship between other determinants of time preference and smoking status.
Ahmed Khwaja, Dan Silverman, Frank Sloan
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The impact of agency on time and risk preferences
Nature Communications, 2020 Scholars have long argued for the central role of agency—the size of one’s opportunity set—in the human experience, but there has been little work on how a sense of agency affects behavior.
Ayelet Gneezy +2 more
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Measuring time preferences [PDF]
, 2019 We review research that measures time preferences—i.e., preferences over intertemporal tradeoffs. We distinguish between studies using financial flows, which we call “money earlier or later” (MEL) decisions and studies that use time-dated consumption ...
Cohen, Jonathan D. +3 more
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Pareto Optimal Matchings of Students to Courses in the Presence of Prerequisites [PDF]
, 2016 We consider the problem of allocating applicants to courses, where each applicant has a subset of acceptable courses that she ranks in strict order of preference.
Cechlarova, Katarina +2 more
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Parenting Values Moderate the Intergenerational Transmission of Time Preferences
Social Science Research Network, 2019 We study the intergenerational transmission of time preferences in a setting without reverse causality concerns. We find substantial transmission of patience from parents to children, which is insensitive to the inclusion of comprehensive sets of ...
A. Brenøe, Thomas Epper
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How to measure time preferences: An experimental comparison of three methods [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 In two studies, time preferences for financial gains and losses at delays of up to 50 years were elicited using three different methods: matching, fixed-sequence choice titration, and a dynamic ``staircase'' choice method.
David J. Hardisty +3 more
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